House Oversight Demanding EPA Documents Following Allegations of Waste and Fraud

The House Oversight and Accountability Committee’s Republican leaders are looking into alleged waste, fraud, and abuse in the Biden administration’s billion-dollar environmental justice award program.
Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.)—and Chairman of the Oversight Subcommittee on Economic Development, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas)—informed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan in a Feb. 27  letter that they had launched an investigation into the program.
The two Republican leaders asked for documents, information, and a staff briefing, and gave the agency a deadline of March 6 to schedule a briefing with the committee.
The agency was given until March 13 to remit the requested documents on the Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Program (EJCPS) Cooperative Agreement Program, and the Environmental Justice Government-to-Government (EJG2G) Program….}